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Does Quantum Chaos Explain Quantum Statistical Mechanics?

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If a many-body quantum system approaches thermal equilibrium from a generic initial state, then the expectation value $\langle\psi(t)|A_i|\psi(t)\rangle$, where $|\psi(t)\rangle$ is the system's state vector and $A_i$ is an experimentally accessible observable, should approach a constant value which is independent of the initial state, and equal to a thermal average of $A_i$ at an appropriate temperature. We show that this is the case for all simple observables whenever the system is classically chaotic.

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Grand-Canonical Typicality

quant-ph · 2026-01-06 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

The paper establishes that typical states in a grand-canonical micro-canonical Hilbert subspace produce the grand-canonical density matrix and a GAP/Scrooge wave-function distribution for the subsystem.

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  • Violating the All-or-Nothing Picture of Local Charges in Non-Hermitian Bosonic Chains cond-mat.stat-mech · 2026-03-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 66 · internal anchor

    Non-Hermitian bosonic chains with symmetric hopping can host k-local charges for selected k only, providing counterexamples to all-or-nothing integrability and showing the Grabowski-Mathieu 3-local test is not universal.

  • Grand-Canonical Typicality quant-ph · 2026-01-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 51 · internal anchor

    The paper establishes that typical states in a grand-canonical micro-canonical Hilbert subspace produce the grand-canonical density matrix and a GAP/Scrooge wave-function distribution for the subsystem.

  • Wigner Cat Phases: A finely tunable system for exploring the transition to quantum chaos quant-ph · 2025-12-17 · reject · none · ref 34 · internal anchor

    Repeatedly padding eigenvalues from mixed-size GOE matrices produces heavy-tailed level statistics that the paper labels 'Wigner Cat Phases.'